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Years of Mark Twain's life:

born November 30, 1835, died April 21, 1910

Epitaph

“Let's live in such a way that even the undertaker will regret us when we die!”
Aphorism by Mark Twain

"He
With one movement of the hand
Transports me
Instantly
On beach
Majestic river.
And it seems to me
In the silver swell
Life
On the Mississippi."
From a poem by Nikolai Aseev about Mark Twain

Biography

Mark Twain, the immortal creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, gained worldwide recognition and love primarily thanks to these books about boy friends growing up on the Mississippi. Like his other most famous work, “The Prince and the Pauper,” in our time they are considered children's. Meanwhile, Twain was an incredibly witty man who had seen a lot and was by no means a children's writer. Interesting life, huge talent observer, a sense of humor that reaches the point of sarcasm - all this made Twain the writer whom Hemingway called the founder of modern American literature.

Samuel Clemens was born in the old American South and lost his father at an early age. The young man was forced to earn money with my own hands and worked part-time in a publishing house for some time, and then trained to be a pilot. The image of the great southern Mississippi River, along which Samuel sailed, left a vivid imprint on his heart and then appeared more than once in his works.

War broke out between the North and the South, and Clemens ended up in the army. A few months were enough for him: the young man deserted and went to join his older brother in Nevada, which was rapidly developing at that time due to the silver deposits discovered there. Samuel took a job at the mine and worked as a miner. There he began writing for a local newspaper, and this determined his entire future fate.

Twain's creative path began quite late: at the age of 27 Twain started write articles and stories, and only at 34 wrote his first significant thing. But he was lucky: the editor of the newspaper for which he worked immediately recognized the talent of the young author. Humorous story“The Famous Jumping Frog of Calaveras” was reprinted in all cities of the country and finally confirmed the editors’ opinion that Mark Twain should be “allowed to unfold.” He was sent on a trip to Hawaii, required to send written reports about the trip. Upon his return, Twain toured the state, giving humorous lectures (today they would call it “stand-up”) and drawing full houses.

The first half of Mark Twain's work is full of light, crackling humor and imbued with living language ordinary people. The second is much more serious, more social, full of irony, often bitter. Such is already “A Connecticut Yankee”, such is Mark Twain’s last unfinished work - “The Mysterious Stranger”. IN last years In his life, the writer touched on very deep topics: he thought about God from the position of a categorical atheist, racial injustice from the position of its ardent opponent and social order from the position of a socialist who sympathizes with the revolutionary movement.

Twain loved his family very much, but he was destined to outlive his three children and his wife. This could not but affect the state of the writer himself. He predicted his death a year in advance, saying that he came to this world with the arrival of Halley's Comet and expected to leave with its return. And so it happened: on next year The writer's long-standing illness worsened, and they barely had time to transport him from Bermuda, where he spent the winter. A few weeks later, Mark Twain died of acute angina at his home in Redding.

Life line

November 30, 1835 Date of birth of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain).
1847 Leaving school, starting work in a printing house.
1857 Returning home from Iowa, becoming a pilot's apprentice.
1859 Obtaining a pilot's license and starting work on the river.
1861 Joining the Confederate Army, deserting, escaping to Nevada.
1862 Invitation to work at a publishing house.
1866 Trip to Hawaii.
1869 The publication of Twain's first serious book, “Innocents Abroad.”
1870 Marriage to Olivia Langdon.
1871 Moving with family to Hartford, Connecticut. Organizing a home “Morning Club for Youth”.
1876 Creation of the book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".
1882 Creation of the book "The Prince and the Pauper".
1883 Creation of the book "Life on the Mississippi".
1889 Publication of the book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
1901 Honorary Doctorate from Yale University.
1907 Honorary Doctorate from Oxford University.
April 21, 1910 Date of death of Mark Twain.
1916 Posthumous publication last composition Mark Twain "No. 44. The Mysterious Stranger."

Memorable places

1. The city of Florida (Missouri), where Mark Twain was born.
2. The city of Hannibal, where Mark Twain’s family moved when he was 4 years old.
3. San Francisco, where Mark Twain lived since 1864
4. Hawaii, where Mark Twain visited in 1866
5. Sevastopol, where Mark Twain visited in 1867
6. Mark Twain House Museum in Hartford (Connecticut) at st. Farmington, 351, where the writer lived in 1874-1891.
7. Florence, under which Mark Twain lived in the Villa di Quattro in 1903-1904.
8. Redding, where Mark Twain lived the last years of his life and died in his Stormfield home.
9. Bermuda, where Mark Twain spent his winters from 1905 onwards last months before death.
10. Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, where Mark Twain is buried.

Episodes of life

The combination of words chosen by Samuel as a pseudonym is a conventional message exchanged between pilots on the river. It literally translates as “double mark” and means maximum depth for the passage of a vessel.

Mark Twain traveled a lot, alone and with his family. He visited Europe and Asia, Jamaica and Cuba; in Paris he met Turgenev, in London - with Darwin and Henry James, and was acquainted with Maxim Gorky.

Mark Twain was very fond of cats, billiards and a pipe, and in many photographs he is depicted with one of the objects of his hobbies.

Testaments

“The power of one man over another means oppression—invariably and always oppression; albeit not always conscious, deliberate, deliberate, not always harsh, or heavy, or cruel, or indiscriminate, but one way or another - always oppression in one form or another. Whoever you give power to, it will certainly manifest itself in oppression.”

“Make it a goal to do something every day that you don’t like. This Golden Rule will help you perform your duty without disgust."

“When in doubt, tell the truth.”

“What leads us to trouble is not that we do not know something, but that we know “for sure,” and this knowledge is erroneous.”

“Pessimism is just a word that the faint-hearted call wisdom.”

Documentary about Mark Twain, The Encyclopedia Project

Condolences

“The only, incomparable, Lincoln of our literature.<…>The eternal teenager is the heart of a boy and the head of a sage.”
William Dean Howells, American writer

“He could have become something; he almost became someone; but he never did.”
Walt Whitman, American poet

“Praising Mark Twain is like whitewashing birch trees.”
Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States

“Mark Twain threw his genius into the service of man, to strengthen his faith in himself, to help the human soul develop towards justice, goodness and beauty.”
Yuri Olesha, Soviet writer

№ 2015 / 44, 09.12.2015

From Belinsky, or something like that, but in the dear Fatherland to this day: literature, and even foreign literature, and even “ Foreign literature"(magazine), may become more relevant than the most popular parliamentary, television talk shows. Do you want to know how the Russians overthrew the Tsar, how Germany became anti-Semitic, why the United States, having shown a fake test tube at the UN, invaded Iraq, for which tons of napalm were poured on Vietnamese children, and white phosphorus on Donbass children, why Libyan refugees did it again in the fall of 2015 Buchenwald - inhabited? Writer Mark Twain(Clemens) will save you a hundred or two terabytes Zhirinovsky, Solovyov, Venediktov...

Mark Twain

True, Twain will not perform this trick himself, but with the help of a colleague, Alexandra Melikhova. The paradox is that good writer even in its most idiotic (the epithet will be substantiated later) delusions, it is fruitful.

The poet starts talking from afar, and Melikhov, almost insinuatingly, begins: “There lived in the world one powerful humorist, in whom any lingering pathos certainly awakened murderous sarcasm, whose favorite delicacy was jokes about death... In the end, he wrote something that his daughter Clara Clemens-Gabrilovich gave consent to publication only after half a century. The classic bequeathed especially ferocious judgments about God as an evil, vain, envious person “not to show to anyone until 2406.”

Will we live to read it? - this is how that “evil envious person” will measure it. Paradox, an American satirist who hated pathos to the point of fury, in his declining years he himself becomes pathetic, like a movie star who received a golden Oscar and gives a speech of gratitude: “We considered our flag a shrine, in foreign lands our throats caught when, baring our heads, we thought about what ideals he represented” (“The Man Who Walks in Darkness,” 1901).

Giving Europe a “C” for humanism, Twain... “calls generous, liberating international politics a game in the American way, aggressive, self-interested - a game in the European way.”

But where is Russia, the Russians? Alas, the tireless traveler reached us (Odessa-Yalta-Sevastopol, 1867). I got there in my humanistic, caring books.

Melikhov finds Twain’s key idea: “Any people harbors within themselves enough strength to create a republic, even such an oppressed people as the Russians, and as timid and indecisive as the Germans; bring him out of a state of rest, and he will trample any throne and any nobility into the mud” - and sums it up with a sigh: “Well, both peoples were eventually able to be brought out of a state of rest.”

Twain: “The first covenant in all monarchical countries should be Rebellion, and the second - Rebellion, and the third, and all other covenants in any monarchical country should be Rebellion against church and state... Let us help Russia create a republic that would ensure the degree of freedom that we enjoy We".

Melikhov: “Where Pathos begins to write Words in Capital Letters, do not expect any good.”

Wait, it will come to 1917 and 2015. Populist Nikolai Tchaikovsky collected funds in America for the Russian revolution. Mark Twain fumed: “We have lost sympathy for the oppressed peoples fighting for their lives and freedom.” Tchaikovsky objected: “The Americans in the blink of an eye raised two million dollars for the Russian revolution” (then this was the sum!)

Twain: “It wasn’t the Americans who raised the money, it was the Jews who raised it.” After praising the Jews for their “responsiveness,” Twain published a bombshell article in the New York Times: “A WEAPON TO LIBERATE RUSSIA”: “Russia has endured for too long a government built on false promises, deceit, betrayal and the butcher’s ax in the name of aggrandizement.” one single family of useless drones and his lazy and vicious relatives."

Melikhov: “Hmm, humor has finally been crushed by pathos, the great fighter has been pulled into the machine of revolutionary propaganda.”

And so, as the return on investments and donations grew, that is, the revolution flared up, in 1906 Mark Twain climbed the Everest of propaganda: “For two years now, the ultra-Christian tsarist government of Russia has officially arranged and organized the massacre and beating of its Jewish subjects. These beatings happen so often that we have become almost indifferent to them. How much has humanity advanced towards tolerance in the time that elapsed between the massacre of the Albigenses and these Jewish pogroms in Tsarist Russia?.. The Tsarist massacre far surpassed the ancient one in both atrocities and refined cruelty. Can any progress be seen between St. Bartholomew's night and these pogroms?.. The Russian Christian Black Hundreds in 1906 and their tsar reached such bloodthirsty and animal cruelty that their uncouth brothers who lived 335 years ago had never dreamed of.”

Excavated This , under a bunch of all sorts of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry... Melikhov marvels: “How can a person who is not devoid of humor repeat horror stories for babies? Mark Twain did not even want to look into own statistics, he once wrote about St. Bartholomew’s Night: “In two or three days, 70,000 people were killed in France”... During the entire pogrom period, one hundred times fewer Jews were killed than the French. And no evidence has been found of the organizing role of the tsarist government - it can only be accused of connivance” (...)

Cool moment. It turns out that Mark Twain had previously collected statistics on St. Bartholomew's Night! Which the “Russian Black Hundred Christians and their tsar” later surpassed.

Indeed, how strong is the power of stamps! For example, when talking about extremely false propaganda, we call Goebbels, and not the author of Tom Sawyer! Well, the realities of 2015... who, no blind man, would not be able to discern them behind this Twain-like:

“Let’s help Russia (Libya, Ukraine, Vietnam, Iraq...) create a republic that would provide the degree of freedom that we enjoy... Bring them (the people) out of their state of peace, and they will trample any throne into the dirt”...

Melikhov needs an analysis of the (clinical) case of Mark Twain to bring down the whole false ceiling of even more stupid cliches, about which we were told: Heaven. Chapter “What are “Friends of the Jews” and how do they fight against the Bolsheviks” - It gives rise to warm associations just by its name, but its content is completely revolutionary.

The main (among writers) “friend and protector” of the Jews is indicated above. If the “evil envy” had given him another 40 years of life, we would have learned that the number of victims of the Tsarist-Black Hundred pogrom in Odessa was greater than in Hiroshima, and so we had to stop at St. Bartholomew’s Night. But several politicians who had almost crocodile (parrot, tortoise) longevity took advantage of it to replenish the “base of comparisons”, use Jewish question“both ways” and bringing the plot to the status of “archetypal”. In which you can easily recognize the 2015 you are looking for, its relevance.

1) For the unprecedented genocide of Jews, “even such oppressed Russians and such timid Germans” were brought out of their state of rest,

2) And they “trodden into the mud”

3) When, due to the cataclysms of Point 2, Jews really fled en masse, the famous Evian Conference took place...

...about which Melikhov elegantly writes:

“The most humane and powerful powers in the world threw up their hands: and so they did everything possible to alleviate the plight of one and a half hundred thousand refugees from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. US Representative: According to the 1938 entry quota for refugees from Germany and Austria, we accepted 27,370 people, the possibilities have been exhausted. France, Belgium, Canada took a similar position...the refusal to accept refugees was motivated by the economic crisis. The Netherlands has offered assistance for the transit of refugees. Great Britain agreed to provide its colonies in East Africa to accommodate refugees (Eichmann also hoped to evict Jews to Madagascar), but refused to revise the quota for the entry of Jews into her mandated Palestine. Australia... fearing internal conflicts, agreed to accept within three years 15,000 (with a population density of less than three people per square kilometer). Of the thirty-two states, only the richest Dominican Republic agreed to accept a significant number of refugees and allocate the necessary land (...)

Mmm, refugees, refugees, we saw about this somewhere... I think it was on the news yesterday.

Melikhov: “When it was necessary to stand up for Soviet Jews in geopolitical matters in order to insert a piston Soviet Union, Americans, right across Orwell, turned into eternal friends of our Jewish brother, learn, barbarians.”

And at other moments, when the detonator did its job, the Jews, it turns out, were... Melikhov goes through the thoughts of Twain’s heirs, who finally liberated the Jews from the Black Hundred tsar:

Henry Mencken:“Their deeds are disgusting: they justify ten thousand times more pogroms than actually happen in the world” (1920!)

Chesterton:“If they try to re-educate London, as they have already done with Petrograd, they will cause something that will confuse and intimidate them much more than a normal war.”

Chaplain of the British units that occupied the Russian North, Pawnshop sent reports from the scene: “Bolshevism is directed by international Jewry, the nationalization of women by October 1918 is a fait accompli.”

The British press attributed the Young Turk Revolution to a Judeo-Zionist or Judeo-Masonic conspiracy. British Ambassador to Washington Sir Cecil-Rice disseminated this information as completely reliable, drawing parallels with October revolutions. Official London printers printed The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

More than half of Americans believed that Jews in the United States had taken too much power, the New Deal Roosevelt called the “Jewish Course” (“New Deal” - “Jew Deal”). Churchill attributed Trotsky project of a communist state under Jewish domination" (...)

That is Hitler V " Mein Kampf"only reposted Churchill. But haven't we been distracted from Twain's beloved Russia? Melikhov compares:

"Autocrat ( Nikolay 2. - I.Sh.) refused to use the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which he admired: “You cannot defend a noble cause with dirty means.” The civilized world subsequently turned out to be less squeamish. Surely “personal hostility” prompted the emperor to react to the pogrom movement insufficiently quickly, although what is being done promptly in our country?

Nicholas II

And to finally clarify the issue with the state Black Hundreds, Melikhov brings in Twain’s contemporary Sholem Aleichem, casually breaking another cliche from Twain’s times: Cossack = Black Hundred. So, Sholom Aleichem “Notes of a Traveling Salesman”: “We heard about the Cossacks and immediately came to life. A Jew, as soon as he sees a Cossack, immediately becomes brave, ready to show his gun to the whole world. It's a joke, such security! The whole point is only who will appear first - the Cossacks from Tulchin or the thugs from Zhmerinka... They safely came to Gaysin, of course, with songs and shouts of “hurray” - as God himself commanded. Only they were a little late. Cossacks were already riding through the streets on horses and fully armed, that is, with whips in their hands. In just half an hour there was no trace left of the Black Hundreds.”

Melikhov finishes, remembering Bernard Shaw, Feuchtwanger, Romain Rolland, according to liberals: those who have lost their criticality, healthy skepticism, too fascinated Stalin.

And remember where “healthy criticality” led one of the most famous critics in the history of literature, Mark Twain... oh last, last, charm!

Igor SHUMEYKO

A.M. Melikhov “Mark Twain as a mirror of the Russian revolution” (“Foreign Literature” No. 8, 2015)

Americans think Mark Twain(his real name is Samuel Clemens) the most recognizable and popular writer of your country and era. Indeed, a powerful personality, and appearance? An unconventional light suit, an invariable thick cigar, a shock of disheveled gray hair, the famous mustache bushes - why not an eccentric with whom you want to exchange a few good phrases? But there is a lot we don't know about Twain...

During his life, Twain experienced the loss of three of his four children and the death of his beloved wife Olivia. The remaining daughter became a singer and often toured the world. Twain was very bored without his wife and grandchildren, feeling abandoned.

The daughter, like many people around the writer, treated Twain as big child. For example, he was delusional with ideas of getting rich quick. But they all ended in failure. In the Nevada desert, Twain wanted to dig gold mines, investing a lot of money in this scheme. Failure! Then he hit upon the idea of ​​creating an engraving machine that would revolutionize printing. Here he trusted some rogue, losing almost all his fortune.

His factory and workshop burned down on the eve of the audit, which was carried out by Twain himself. But his friends tried to dissuade him from this venture with the fraudulent entrepreneur.

But soon James Page was next to the writer, who persuaded Twain to continue working with the engraving machine. Over 14 years, Page sucked out about 4 million dollars from the writer, but never brought the matter to completion.

The writer got into debt. I had to give lectures at universities in the USA and Europe. But even this did not stop Twain from adventures. He invested the next $1.5 million in a fabric design machine. But then his relatives attacked him, forcing him to give up textiles. The writer complied. And as luck would have it, the textile business had a huge financial success, but without Twain's participation.

Then Mark decided to make a fortune on coca leaves (a narcotic shrub). He heard and read a lot about the miraculous effect of coca leaves, which the Indians chewed. They helped them go without food around the clock. Twain decided to make money from coke through pharmaceutical companies. Coca then seemed promising development, win-win.

The writer collected a lot of cash, thousands of empty bags for coca leaves (and cash from profits) and went along the Mississippi to the Amazon, where this bush grew in abundance. Nothing could stop him from getting rich. But, having boarded the ship, Twain remembered his childhood dream - to become the captain of a steamship on the Mississippi.

Young Mark Twain

What kind of cola is this, what kind of business? Mark made friends with the crew, obtained permission to stand on the captain's bridge and spent days on end among the sailors, exposing his face to the sun and wind. This is how he acquired the gloss of a seasoned captain. He simply forgot about business.

Constant financial failures led Twain to severe depression. Doctors feared for his mental state. This is also noted in the outline of one of his books. Mark decided to write a continuation of the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. The idea came to the writer many years after the release of the original. According to the new plot, Finn was already 60 years old - a frail old man who had lost his mind.

Huckleberry returns from distant lands and looks for his old friends - Tom and Becky Thatcher, Finn believed that he remained a little boy. According to the notes, it turned out that Finn discovered Sawyer as a lonely old man. Friends find each other and soon die together. Fortunately, Mark Twain decided to leave this idea for the future, but then threw it into the attic. The writer managed to survive and overcome the traces of his painful experience in business. For us, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn will always remain boys.

Few people know that Mark Twain considered himself a psychic and fortune teller. He did not allow his abilities to be called “clairvoyance,” demanding that this gift be called “mental telegraph.” The discovery happened by accident. Once Twain sent letters to different addresses, where he described the progress of his affairs, his own thoughts about various events etc.

And on the same day, Mark received a series of letters from the same addressees, where they described to him their affairs and thoughts about the same events. It seemed to everyone that the letters were written almost as carbon copies. And Mark imagined himself to be a seer and telepath.

Sometimes Twain recounted the contents of friends' letters without even opening the envelope. His mother claimed that this ability manifested itself in Mark in childhood, when he suffered from sleepwalking (somnambulism). Once in a dream, Mark suddenly started talking about the imminent death of his sister. And she died a few days later from yellow fever. Since then, the boy was looked at with caution.

Mark's warning about his brother Henry looks even worse. One day Mark had a dream in which he saw Henry lying in a coffin. But Henry was alive and well at that time. However, Mark stubbornly described his dream, pointing to a series of strange features. IN small details he described the coffin in which Henry lay, its mourning decorations, and even a bouquet of white roses with one red flower in the center. Henry (in the dream) was wearing Mark’s clothes, which he had not even had time to try on yet. The story sounded strange and scary.

Years passed, and Henry Clemens was tragically killed in a boiler explosion on a steamship. Mark Twain arrived at his funeral. He had already seen this entire scene in his childhood dream. Twain was struck by some of the nuances. Henry's coffin was not even painted, as if it had just been cut down. Henry lay in it wearing Mark's clothes. She was handed over to the morgue by Twain's relatives.

The dream was repeated in small details. And when Mark remembered the bouquet of roses, an elderly lady politely moved him away from the coffin and placed a bunch of white roses on Henry’s chest, which scattered, revealing one scarlet flower.

Despite their psychic abilities, Twain himself often came close to death. He was born prematurely, everyone expected his imminent death. But it passed. Until the age of 4 he was bedridden, and until the age of 7 he was stunted. His childhood was spent on the shores of the Mississippi, but he never learned to swim. Mark drowned in the Mississippi 9 times, but was rescued. The guy was drawn to the river, where he fell repeatedly due to carelessness.

Then he thought about the profession of a river captain. As a child, he was nearly killed by a measles epidemic he caught from a friend. Already in mature years Mark wrote a letter to his friend in which he shared his plans for suicide. He complained to his brother Henry about his life, promising to commit suicide if his affairs did not improve. And again everything worked out.

One day, a drunken Twain persuaded his drinking companion to go for a walk across the rooftops. They were mistaken for thieves. The watchman shot at Mark, but missed.

And shortly before his death, Mark Twain publicly stated: “I came into this world in 1835 with Halley’s comet, in a year it will return, and I expect to rush off with it.” And so it happened.

Alexander WULFF

Horizontal:

1. “Living goods” in the labor market. Answer: Specialist.
5. Which tree do the people of Madagascar ritually thank “for good life"? Answer: Baobab.
9. Spinal sac. Answer: Backpack.
10. Regional center named after the tree. Answer: Lipetsk.
11. Italian diner. Answer: Pizzeria.
14. What does Tatyana Dogileva’s heroine inherit from the comedy “Unexpectedly”? Answer: Antiques.
16. “Land of Joy” by Stephen King. Answer: Park.
18. Fur replacement for mittens. Answer: Clutch.
19. What comes after the day? Answer: Evening.
20. Snack for vegetarians. Answer: Lecho.
23. “Cannon message” during Ona. Answer: Core.
28. Patron saint of the “day of porridge” in Rus'. Answer: Agrafena.
29. His mother, a famous choreographer, was constantly invited to work abroad, so little Kolya lived for a long time in a boarding school (our movie star). Answer: Karachentsov.
30. “The Dictator of the Catwalks.” Answer: Fashion.
31. “My... will save me from new wounds of the heart, from betrayal, from oblivion!” Answer: Talisman.
32. A suitable area for a gold rush. Answer: Mine.
33. In Finland, its amount depends on the income of the offender road rules. Answer: Fine.
34. What sauce is used to prepare the “signature” crab in Singaporean cuisine? Answer: Chile.
40. Whose photograph did Juliet Masina “hold” during her funeral? Answer: Fellini.
42. “Exemplary...” Answer: Behavior.
43. What ban is used by members of the UN Security Council? Answer: Oller.
44. Skater jump. Answer: Veto.
45. Oblonsky’s secular nickname. Answer: Steve.
46. ​​Ukrainian schnapps. Answer: Vodka.
47. “Consequence” of a hole in a ship. Answer: Leak.
48. “Curd dumpling.” Answer: Dumpling.
49. Voyage on the waves. Answer: Cruise.
50. “Astronomical...” Answer: Number.
51. Which gem NASA found on Mars? Answer: Opal.
52. African steppe. Answer: Savannah.

Vertically:

1. What killed Mark Twain? Answer: Angina pectoris.
2. “Lunar... suggests to lonely people Right way love." Answer: Path.
3. Mental abnormalities are within normal limits. Answer: Eccentricity.
4. What kind of groom is waiting for the heroine of Akhmatova’s poem “By the Sea”? Answer: Tsarevich.
6. What does the yellow ring from the Olympic emblem symbolize? Answer: Asia.
7. “White lie” of a bad scenario. Answer: Bluff.
8. What sport is used in Mexican prisons to resolve conflicts between prisoners? Answer: Boxing.
10. Which Baltic country was the last to join the euro area? Answer: Lithuania.
12. “No one wears... on his own.” Answer: Mourning.
13. “How many times have I... been lied to and fooled! And the king cheated on me on the long journey with the lady of clubs.” Answer: Cards.
15. In which room does your wife most often get a sudden headache? Answer: Bedroom.
17. For main role in the drama “... the globe drank away” Konstantin Khabensky received both the “Golden Eagle” and “Nika”. Answer: Geographer.
18. Working profession Bruce Willis's father. Answer: Mechanic.
21. Regional center with a monument to a sober plumber. Answer: Perm.
22. Painting without inspiration. Answer: Daub.
24. Who wore black leather pants to his wedding to Billy Bob Thornton? Answer: Jolie.
25. What giraffe cannot boast of height? Answer: Okapi.
26. The art of using up space. Answer: Architecture.
27. Who was born wearing a shirt that cannot be demolished? Answer: Lucky.
31. Where does the serial Carmelita feel at home? Answer: Tabor.
34. “Autumn has come, the cabbage has faded, everything has fallen asleep until spring...” Answer: Feeling.
35. At what meeting do you not have time to take a proper nap? Answer: Flying.
36. Which Yoko became the muse for the legendary John Lennon? Answer: It.
37. “Signal” of boredom. Answer: Yawn.
38. Acute shortage. Answer: Deficit.
39. “Draughtsman” of circles. Answer: Compass.
41. “Chronicle of the Trojan Battle” from Homer. Answer: Iliad.
42. “It’s like... I fell out of my sight.” Answer: Veil.
46. ​​What do they sing while standing? Answer: Anthem.